A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > California > San Joaquin http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=592 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=58309 Submitted by: deesar Article Title: Stockton Daily Independent Article Date: January 1867 Article Description: January 7-12, 1867 Article Text: >>MONDAY, 7 JAN 1867San Francisco papers please copy.] DEATH -- in Paradise, Stanislaus county, Nov. 10th, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of James and Sarah D. McHENRY, aged 13 months, 10 days. DEATH -- in Paradise, Stanislaus county, Dec. 18th, James Downey, son of James and Sarah D. McHENRY, aged 3 years, 5 months, 10 days. WANTED -- The undersigned desires a situation as Book-Keeper, Clerk, Porter, or any employment in which he can consistently engage and make himself generally useful. For further information, send or call at John NICHOLS', Main street. Eugene LEHE IN POOR HEALTH -- We regret to learn, by a private letter to a gentleman in this city, that P.L. SHOAFF, of the 'Union Vedette' newspaper, Salt Lake, is in poor health, and that he is attended constantly by physicians. FATAL ACCIDENT -- Drytown, Jan. 6 -- While attempting to cross Indian Creek, at Finn's Ranch, near this place [Drytown], last night about dark, the buggy of J.B.K. CHURCH was overturned by the force of the current and his wife and little son, about 3 years old, were drowned. Mr. CHURCH, although considerably injured, succeeded in gaining the shore, but could render no assistance to his wife and child. The body of Mrs. CHURCH was found this morning about half a mile below Finn's, and that of the child about 4 miles below, near Mineral City. MARRIED AGAIN -- LYNCH, of the Gold Hill 'News,' says that Brigham YOUNG is luxuriating in the honeymoon of his 45th wife, a beautiful Danish girl of 17. He has just lost his 24th wife, who was buried without any ceremony, or even a notice of her death. -------------------------------------------------------- DEATH of WILSON FLINT -- Our exchanges bring us the sorrowful intelligence of the death of Hon. Wilson FLINT, of Sacramento -- a gentleman who has perhaps done more, by his pen and by his individual influence and example, to advocate the agricultural interests of California than any other citizen of the State. Mr. FLINT died at San Francisco on the 4th inst., of congestive chills. The 'Bulletin' of the same date furnished the following sketch of the deceased. We are necessarily compelled to abbreviate it somewhat: Wilson FLINT was born in New Hampshire in 1825. In 1842 he went from New York, where he had engaged in mercantile pursuits, to Galveston, Texas. While in Texas, his reflective and sagacious mind became strongly convinced of the moral and economical evil of slavery, and he left that State in 1849, as he told the writer of this, because he was unwilling to have his children grow up under its vicious influence, and did not feel at home under it himself. He believed, moreover; that the struggle for its extension and perpetuation would result in civil war. Mr. FLINT made his first home in our State at San Francisco, where he built the large warehouse which still stands at North Point, and was very prosperous until the overdoing of the warehouse business caused a sudden reaction that involved him in heavy losses. In 1856, he was elected to the State Senate from this county on the American or Know Nothings mainly because he thought their organization could be used to break down the! pro-slavery Democratic influence which then ruled the State. During his term, Henry S. FOOTE, late Confederate Senator, who had just come to California on a political venture from Mississippi, was the Know Nothing candidate for United States Senator. Mr. FLINT, together with ASHLEY, of Monterey, (now Congressman from Nevada), and WAITE, of Nevada county, and perhaps 1 or 2 others, concluded that FOOTE was an unfit man, who, if elected, would serve the slavery aggressionists. He was the caucus nominee, however, and could only be defeated by preventing a joint convention. It was found that a single vote would suffice to prevent a convention, and Mr. FLINT cast that vote day after day. The service he did the State by defeating FOOTE can be estimated now when we reflect that had FOOTE been elected he would have been representing California during the exciting session of Congress which preceded the rebellion, and until the 2nd year of the war, and would doubtless have ranked hi! mself among the opponents of LINCOLN's policy if he had not resigned w ith others to assist in organizing the rebel government. Mr. FLINT served 1 term in the State Senate, and retiring to private life lent the valuable aid of his influence and example to the support of the Republican party. Among the 1st to counsel the consolidation of the Union vote, he was to the last a supporter of the more advanced principles of that party. We regret that lack of space prevents us from paying a worthier tribute to his memory. The best compliment that could be paid him, now that he is gone, would be the collection and publication in book form of his agricultural writings. The act would at the same time be a service to the State. ---------------------------------------------------------- >>TUESDAY, 8 JAN 1867SATURDAY, 12 JAN 1867